Showing papers on "Upper ontology published in 1993"
TL;DR: This paper describes a mechanism for defining ontologies that are portable over representation systems, basing Ontolingua itself on an ontology of domain-independent, representational idioms.
12,962 citations
21 Mar 1993
TL;DR: Algorithms for merging complementary online resources, in particular the LDOCE and WordNet dictionaries, are reported on, aiming at broad semantic coverage.
Abstract: This paper describes efforts underway to construct a large-scale ontology to support semantic processing in the PAN-GLOSS knowledge-base machine translation system. Because we are aiming at broad semantic coverage, we are focusing on automatic and semi-automatic methods of knowledge acquisition. Here we report on algorithms for merging complementary online resources, in particular the LDOCE and WordNet dictionaries. We discuss empirical results, and how these results have been incorporated into the PANGLOSS ontology.
41 citations
TL;DR: The concept of formal ontology was first developed by Husserl and it concerns problems relating to the notions of object, substance, property, part, whole, predication, nominalization, etc as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The concept of formal ontology was first developed by Husserl. It concerns problems relating to the notions of object, substance, property, part, whole, predication, nominalization, etc. The idea of formal ontology is present in many of Husserl’s works, with minor changes. This paper provides a reconstruction of such an idea. Husserl’s proposal is faced with contemporary logical orthodoxy and it is presented also an interpretative hypothesis, namely that the original difference between the general perspective of usual model theory and formal ontology is grounded in the fact that this latter starts from an intended interpretation and not from the set of all the possible interpretations
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